Declared Comparison Candidate (DCC)
Declared Comparison Candidate (DCC)
Status: Canonical Governance Object
Purpose
A Declared Comparison Candidate (DCC) is a governance object used to preserve a declared corpus prior to constitutional comparison.
Its purpose is not to determine similarity, influence, equivalence, priority or dependence.
Its purpose is to preserve the comparison state itself.
A DCC establishes a stable constitutional reference against which later comparative work may be conducted without altering or retrospectively reconstructing the declared corpus.
Constitutional Function
Scientific comparison often begins before the constitutional relationship between two frameworks is understood.
Without preserving the comparison state, later observations risk becoming contaminated by subsequent revisions, reinterpretations or selective reconstruction.
A DCC therefore freezes the constitutional comparison boundary.
It records:
the declared corpus under consideration;
the comparison purpose;
the constitutional scope of the proposed comparison;
the governance objects expected to participate in that comparison;
and the current comparison status.
It deliberately avoids drawing conclusions.
What a DCC Does Not Do
A DCC does not:
establish similarity;
establish equivalence;
establish influence;
establish priority;
establish originality;
establish adoption;
establish interoperability;
perform constitutional interpretation.
Those remain the purpose of later governance processes.
Relationship to Other Governance Objects
Before comparison
DCC
Preserves the declared comparison state.
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Constitutional review
COR
Reviews a declared framework or corpus.
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Constitutional interoperability
CIR
Examines constitutional relationships between independently declared frameworks.
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Lexical provenance
LOR
Examines the constitutional origin and evolution of individual governance objects.
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Governance history
GOH
Records significant constitutional observations arising during governance.
Typical Lifecycle
Declared corpus
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DCC
(Comparison preserved)
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COR / CIR
(Framework review)
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LOR
(Object provenance where required)
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GOH
(Governance observations)
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Repository ArchiveTypical Uses
A DCC may be created when:
two independently developed frameworks appear to contain related governance objects;
methodological overlap is suspected but not yet evaluated;
constitutional comparison has been proposed but not yet commenced;
provenance requires preservation before further discussion;
independently evolving frameworks are expected to undergo later interoperability review.
Constitutional Principle
A DCC preserves possibility without asserting consequence.
It records that comparison has become constitutionally relevant.
It does not determine what that comparison will ultimately conclude.
Constitutional Status
A DCC carries no constitutional consequence beyond preservation of the comparison state.
No inference regarding similarity, dependence, originality or influence may be drawn solely from the existence of a DCC.
Those conclusions require subsequent constitutional evaluation.
Repository Convention
Each registered comparison receives a unique identifier.
Example:
DCC-0001 — Boris Kriger: Code of Practice for the Introduction of Entities in Cosmology
DCC-0002 — José Guevara Calderón: RA/PMT Governance Architecture
DCC-0003 — SICC Constitutional Methodology (proposed)
